Knowledge management

Organizations capture and deploy what they have learned in four ways: Culture, Old Pros, Archives, and Processes.

Explores the relationship between social characteristics of scientists and the interpersonal sharing of technological knowledge.

This book explores recent theoretical and empirical advances in the understanding of how professional occupations are organized.

Which forms of company cooperation are open to cultural scientists and what can western universities and companies learn from current concepts in Eastern Europe?

Standards wars of open source software products are far from being adequately understood.

Knowledge management is a prerequisite to sustain a competitive advantage in project-based companies.

A new look at nearly 20 years of theoretical and practical research on IT outsourcing.

Within management thinking, behaviours have become repetitive, and organizational performance is stagnant or declining.

Presents an ultimate theory of knowledge-based management and organizational knowledge creation based on empirical research and an extensive literature review.

There is a feeling that Asia is at a crossroad, and is facing a new crisis.

The organization, processing and representation of knowledge becomes increasingly important in all scientific and business contexts.

This book considers the importance of organizing knowledge processes to overcome geographical, time zone and cultural challenges found in global work.

A profile in socio-technical terms of ways that innovation is manifested in American, European, and Asian knowledge-based innovation networks and knowledge clusters.

Knowledge and information are the two most powerful competitive weapons of this era.

Profiling Smart Development: A thorough comparative empirical review of real and best e-Development policies and practices towards the Knowledge Economy.

Innovation is crucial for competitive advantage and long-term success.

India has realised, later than many other nations, that in order to prosper in the new world economy it will need to successfully manage its knowledge assets.

Acquisitions are increasingly used to source capabilities, but often without success.

Improving service and profits should be the constant aim of the operation side of any company.

Risk communication helps companies, governments and institutions minimise disputes, resolve issues and anticipate problems before they result in an irreversible breakdown in communications.

In this book leading scholars debate current issues and shed light on future prospects in the field of Knowledge Management.

Examining the regulatory issues of fostering technological innovation and its applications this book combines legal, economic and administrative science perspectives.

Written by a team of highly respected authorities on management and organizational behaviour, this core textbook is grounded in an extensive body of international research and analysis that demonstrates that knowledge work depends primarily on the behaviours, attitudes and motivations of those who undertake and manage it and not simply on the implementation of information systems technology.

A presentation of four years of close observation of research and knowledge transfer practices in a university.

This volume highlights the importance of interactive, practice-based learning as a means to promote more thorough innovation dynamics in regional and national economies.

Drawing on the author's recent and ongoing research this book explores how to build the organizational capability to realise the strategic potential of information technology.

Traditional management structures, systems,and tools, intended to make the first factories of the industrial ageefficient, are now obsolete.

Demonstrates how knowledge management can be used to enhance business processes.

If you think more strategically than your competitors, your company will win the competitive battle in the mid or long term.

How do you create world-class educational institutions that are academically rigorous and vocationally relevant?

Emphasizing the practical side of Technology and Innovation Management, this book includes significant contributions to the practice of strategizing, management of competences and innovation management.

Based on research-informed 'future-scoping' and emerging practice in the field of executive education this bookis split into three parts: Future Context, Future Learning and Future Learners.

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Highlighting the best in management learning theory and practices, the authors provide a comprehensive approach to leadership from a learning perspective.

The complete story of the devastating BP oil spill of 2010.

This book reports empirical material from three case studies in the pharmaceutical industry, the biotechnology industry and the domain of academic research.

Information produced and disseminated by an interlocking ecology of computer-based systems and artifacts currently provides the essential means for planning organizational operations and controlling organizational performances.

Signs are critically important in all forms of activity, including business, because they establish what it is to be human.

The complexity and tensions of industrial innovation processes are fleshed out through the analysis of an intriguing case study from the food industry.

This book gives an alternative observational scheme to better understand knowledge creation and learning in project-based companies.

This book provides a unique insight into the use of intranets and extranets.

China is rapidly becoming an economic superpower, yet its business culture is often misunderstood.

Freelancers possess a tremendous amount of knowledge, skill, and ability.

Based on first-hand information obtained from Chinese and Foreign enterprises and institutions in the Chinese ICT industry, this book presents a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of Chinese ICT industrial sector.

'Innovation and Change in Japanese Management' shows which transformation processes and changes can be observed in Japanese companies in reaction to the economic challenges of the past decade.

An in-depth look at how to improve decisions on major projects at the concept stage, when there is scant information available.

Advances in IT have transformed the way organizations interact with each other.

Talent management is 'the hot topic' for HR managers and chief executives in organizations today.

The International Security Programs Benchmark Report presents and analyzes the findings of a broad survey conducted by the Security Executive Council of corporate international security programs.

The capability to create and apply new knowledge is one of the main sources of sustained competitive advantage, yet there are few empirical studies of this.